When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Simulations suggest cosmic webs, made of filaments of dark matter, stretch throughout the galaxy.

A still image from the 3D animation created from data collected by the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (Caltech/R. Hurt) (CN) — Outer space may seem dark and impossibly vast, a mostly empty place punctuated ...

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...

Science experienced many first-of-a-kind feats this year. These are the groundbreaking achievements that grabbed our attention. Glowing threads of gas, galaxies and dark matter provided the first ...

Astronomers have made an astounding discovery. According to a new paper featured in Nature Astronomy, we have now detected dark matter in the cosmic web for the very first time. The cosmic web is a ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe. Researchers ran over 250,000 simulations to show how these fields shaped the ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole. reading time 3 minutes Researchers compiled hundreds of astronomical ...

Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen. That’s far enough to influence the evolution of the universe on cosmic ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

You could swim through the deepest voids and encounter a single hydrogen atom in an entire football field's worth of space. At the very largest scales, galaxies are not scattered around randomly.